Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.